A lot of ideas are offered in earnest. Gerber Singles, for instance, I'm sure seemed like a good idea to somebody in some meeting, but it was clearly ridiculous. Same with buying Newsweek. Sometimes, though, those bad ideas find their way into cars. Even though they seemed alright at the time, they sometimes had disastrous consequences.

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10.) Automatic Dimming Headlights

If another car was coming in the opposite direction, the intent was that these headlights would dim so you wouldn't blind the other person. Great idea, and thoughtful, too, in theory. Until you got to the practice:

I cleaned mine and hooked it up just to see how it would work - they answer was, it dimmed the lights after the oncoming driver would be blinded. Also it would sometimes just flip the high beams on and off when going down lighted streets.

7.) Volkswagen Beetle Flower Vase

Nothing wrong with brightening up your car, right? Except when it's a massive visual obstruction and then you put water in it for your flowers but should you be putting water into a random cubby in your car? Maybe just save it as a conveniently-located cupholder.

4.) Highway Hi-Fi

CDs, cassettes, even 8-track players are great in cars. So why not a record player?

Don't forget the Highway Hi-Fi, offered on 1956-1959 Chryslers. Granted, being able to play whatever music you want instead of relying on radio stations is an admirable goal, and given the size of reel to reel tape players in the era, it's not like they had many options, but this really didn't work that well at all.

The records had a fairly short useful life, since the stylus was designed to press down on them hard to prevent skipping, which then wore out the vinyl in short order. Even with that, a good pothole would still cause a skip, and of course, the record design was proprietary, which meant the range of titles offered was always limited.

3.) Automatic Seat Belts

Getting everyone to wear seat belts is a noble goal, and is to be commended. Doing it by way of late-70's animatronics is not. The belts offered less protection, could potentially fail in an impact that opened the door, flinging occupants out of the vehicle, and were just generally not as good as three-point belts in many, many ways, as friend of Jalopnik Patrick Frawley noted.

1.) In-Car Mini Bar

Standard on the 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham, the shot glasses were magnetized on the bottom so they wouldn't tip over from your inevitably woozy driving. I know this is supposed to be ideas that seemed good but actually weren't, but Cadillac: WHY WAS THIS EVER A GOOD IDEA?

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